Month: February 2016

The Foreman has a very important role in the Scene. He is the leader of a group of workers, but he also has his own leader who he needs to impress. In the scene, the Foreman has the important objective of covering up the death of one of his workmen. He is paranoid about getting caught by the Senior Officer because of the severe punishment he would recieve.

While performing the role of a Foreman, I would like to show his feelings through speech and body action. Especially expressing his anxious and worried emotions. The motivation plays a key part in his actions because it gives him the urge and motivation to do something. Stanislavski’s technique of being in role at all times and being able to answer any question as your character is important because you must maintain the role of the character (In this case, the Foreman) throughout the whole play.

On a normal day, the Foreman would be a strict, serious character, but the situation where the he is worried about what the Senior officer is gonna think, changes his character completely. The audience needs to see how scared and paranoid he is about the consequences of the death of the worker in order to realise how bad the situation is.

Our scene starts with two boys playing Call of Duty on their consoles. Once they get into a game, the switch comes in and they are actually fighting in a real life war.

One of the boys gets shot, and then the reality of war takes it’s toll. He falls into his friend’s arms and dies. Then the surviving soldier pulls out a peice of paper from his pocket saying; “The Irony…”

The point that this scene is putting across is that kids that play Call of Duty and other war games.. are virtually experiencing; injuries, death and war in general.

This for me is two pictures combined into one. The point that it is trying to put across is that War in games or films is nothing to do with war in reality. This would suit dramatic theatre, it would make a serious impact in a slightly ironic way. The man on the left is risking his life to fight for his country or his beliefs, whereas the Stormtrooper on the right is programmed to fight, or in the case of a video game, is just a virtual character.